Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Selected Items by Detailed Industry of U.S. Affiliate, 2003-2007 [Millions of dollars] ...Directinvestment position on a historical-cost basis, Capital inflows without current-cost adjustment (outflows(-)), Income without current-cost adjustment 1 ... and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage, Other financial investment activities

deficit is expected to remain high, and continue to be financed largely by FDI ... Evolution of the Current Account, FDI, and Terms of Trade (In percent of GDP) Terms of Trade, percentage change (right scale) Imports (left scale) Current Account Deficit (left scale) FDI (left scale) 2008 Proj. ... rules on Caribbean travel for U.S. nationals; and problems with the availability and cost of intra-regional airlift. The shift toward more cruise-ship arrivals

since the beginning of the nineties owing to the rising expenditure of German business travellers ... III. Financial account (capital exports: ±) 1. Directinvestment 2. Portfolio investment 4 Equities Investment fund certificates Bonds and notes German investment abroad (increase: ±) Foreigninvestment in Germany (increase: +) Other portfolio ... of the major currencies used by travellers had appreciated considerably. At the same time

Table II-9. Average Travel & EntertainmentCosts Relative to Sales, By Type of Ownership (in percent) Southeast Bohai Northeast Central Southwest Northwest State-owned Foreign-invested Small domestic Another study has found that entertainment and travel ... Looking at ownership, small domestically-invested firms typically have the highest rates of expenditure on entertainment and travel (Table II-9). FIEs spend less ... and Bohai, entertainment/travelcosts are about 3x higher for FIEs in the Northwest.